The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
SOUTH CAROLINA.


Hail has beaten down crops around
Spartanburg.
The county Jail at Greenville, now con-
sidered insecure, is to be repaired.
A negro was shot at Lancaster on Satur-
day last while stealing melons from w. S.
| X. Harper.
The Piedmont mills are busily at work
again, the high water in the Saluda having
! gone down.
Quite a perceptible shock of earthquake
| visited Camden on Wednesday morning, at
| 7:01 o'clock
The Superintendents of the agricultural
experiment stations in South Carolina will
be paid $500 per annum.
The Bank of Cheraw, so far, has done
better than the most sanguine could have
| expected. The stock cannot be bought az
| par.
| At Rock Hill Friday. the cornerstone of
the graded school building, which when
completed Will cost 81 900, was laid by the
Grand Lodge f. a. NJ.
Six large new buildings are in process of
erection at Aiken, and several others are in
contemplation. Another first-class hotel at
Aiken is about TO be erected.
The Edgefield Chronicle says that in 1857
there were !; paupers in the county poor
house, all of whom were white; now there
are only 21-l5 white, G colored.
The residence of the late Hon c. B.
Farmer, now the property of Mr.. Tudor
Farmer, of Allendale, was totally destroyed
by fire early Tuesday morning.
A cyclone on small scale is reported TO
have passed through Kershaw county, just
north of Camden, on Saturday last, uproot-
| ing trees and doing other damage.
The registration of voters at Greenville
closed on Aug. ID, the total strength of the
voting population being / ,461-S14 whites
and G47 cOlored. The number is unexpect-
eddy large
At Camden the treacherous Wateree is
almost out of its bank again. The crops
are doing well, but are beginning to need
rain. Rain is threatened almost every day,
but it does not come.
For the past few weeks several hundred
dollars worth of brackets and other work
| from Gray & Anderson's shops at Laurens
were shipped to Greenville. Shipments to
other points occur daily.
Mrs. Lockaby, lady in Greenville county,
| is possessed with a strange power, or
| force" similar to that of Lula Hurst, the
| Georgia electric girl. She is as curious to
understand its mysteries as her neighbors
are
The Berkeley, Gazette says that the melon
season has been very profitable. One Christ
Church planter shipped over 5000 from a
| ten-acre patch, the melons costing less
than 500, leaving a net profit not far short
| of 500
The colored citizens of Honea Path held a
| Prohibition meeting lately, 5000 strong
several white and colored speakers ad-
| dressed the meeting, which is stated to have
been very orderly, and quite a success in
| every way.
A tremendous roaring noise was heard
n Can1Hpn ahnnt O'CLOCK
| day night, and it appeared as if a cyclone
| was bearing down upon the town, but it
| passed over without doing any damage. The
wind blew very strong for time, though.
Tom Bryant. white man, was killed by
| the mail train on the Spartanburg and
| Union railroad Tuesday about 80 a. IN.
He was sleeping on the track about two
miles above Pacolet. Coroner Evans held
an inquest. No blame is attached to the en-
| gineer.
The Columbia Gun Club has generously
| offered to give the Base Ball Association all
| of the gate receipts at the shooting tourna-
ment this week. The association has lost
heavily recently, having guaranteed visit
| ing clubs certain amounts, and the rains
| preventing an attendance
Thomas Gilliray, a storekeeper on the Sa-
vannah river, met with a strangely fatal
accident on Thursday last. While riding in
the wheels passing over his abdomen and
| producing inflammation, which caused his
death on the day following.
The Orangeburg Times Democrat reports
| that a panic was created at Cattle Greek
camp meeting, in that county. by the
vicious conduct of some boys, who built
large bonfire in the campus, and raised a
| cry of fire after persons had retired for the
night The perpetrators of this outrage
| have been arrested.
The Greenville NeUs says that an exami-
nation of the disaster to the new iron bridge
over the Saluda river, in Anderson county,
| shows that the brick was probably washed
away during the recent floods by the mass
| of drift which had accumulated against the
central pier, which, with the force of the
water, carried it away.
Judge Wallace, president of the Wallace
House Association, has appointed Isaac S.
Bamberg, r. r. Hemphill, D. f. Bradley,
| John w. Wofford and w. s. Allen on the
committee to make arrangements for the
| meeting of the Association on Wednesday
of the Columbia Fair next November A
| full attendance of the survivors is desired:
Two gentlemen, with their families who
| have been living in Florida, have stopped at
Chester, and are thinking of buying land in
that county. One of them is miner, hav-
| ing lived at one time in Colorado, and while
animation of our mineral resources. He
claims to have found gold, but declines to
| give any information in regard to the place
and quantity of the rich finding.
| f. d. Batson was shot by Ben Dunkin
| while at work near his home in Paris Noun
tain township Friday. The two men are
neighbors and feud has existed between
them for some time, caused by the alleged
intimacy of Batson with the wife of Dun
kin. They quarreled on July 4, when Dun
kin shot Batsop, wounding him slightly
Friday morning Dunkin shot from ambush,
using buckshot Batson was wounded
! twice, but not seriously
I. b. Denton, of Camden, who was nomi-
mated by some friends to the Legislature
has accepted. In the latter part of his letter
of acceptance he says: II accept the nomi-
nation in opposition TO no one. had
nothing TO say in regard to 1.-THE voters
must decide. If elected, | shall continue to
wear a ~ hat. If defeated, shall not be
troubled with insomnia. Again thanking
my friends, etc. Magill and Denton are so
far the only candidates for nomination.
At Orangeburg, Thursday, Commissioner
Lathrop examined Timothy s. r. Rivers,
ex-postmaster at Maplecane Post Office, on
two warrants, one for unlawfully OBTAINING
letters addressed to his office; the other for
rendering false accounts to the auditor for
! tha r,urroCa of iu0rpaS his pnnnpaneatfo,,